Los Angeles Police Department officers stand watch in Los Angeles as City Hall moves to speed up hiring, a push that comes as recent academy classes graduated without a single Black recruit.

Photo by Stephen Oduntan

By Stephen Oduntan

Contributing Writer

LOS ANGELES — Two consecutive Los Angeles Police Academy classes have graduated without a single Black recruit, raising new questions about who is entering — and finishing — the city’s police pipeline at a time when City Hall is racing to hire more officers.

On Sept. 11, Mayor Karen Bass signed Executive Directive No. 14, ordering the city Personnel Department and the Los Angeles Police Department to “break through outdated bureaucratic barriers,” create a dedicated hiring division inside personnel and shorten the selection process to

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